[gentoo-dev] rename packages

2010-12-07 Thread James
I think dev-python/dbus-python should be renamed dev-python/python-dbus Same with these: dev-libs/eggdbus dev-libs/e_dbus All the 'dbus' packages should start or end with 'dbus'.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-06-03 Thread james
On 06/03/2016 12:02 PM, Justin Bronder wrote: On 02/06/16 10:42 -0500, james wrote: On 06/01/2016 06:20 PM, Justin Bronder wrote: > Due to a lack of time and the fact I don't use any of these packages > anymore, they are all up for grabs. > > - media-gfx/openmesh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Repo mirror & CI project news: 'stable' gentoo branch, new repo stats, faster CI

2016-06-05 Thread james
. Well, my question is very basic. In the past, I've used euscan, the site on gentooexperimental.org, or app-portage/euscan the software to determine freshness of a package, for a variety of reasons. Is euscan going to be tied-in or at least coordinated with CI for consistency? James

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-08 Thread james
leted the ebuild quiz and most of the end-o-mentoring quiz. The things not finished are in flux due to changes. Still, I have holes in both my 'big picture comprehension of gentoo-bike-shedding, git/github and general need to become a stronger coder (python). INTERESTED? James What are your

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-08 Thread james
complishes the same for Gentoo. Do NOT - I repeat NOT - tie "user repos" to GitHub Inc., please do not even bother working on a prototype there (looking at you James), because if it is good enough it will stick, and as the social contract rightfully states, it's important to remain indepen

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project

2016-06-07 Thread james
On 06/07/2016 09:25 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 7 czerwca 2016 16:16:38 CEST, Ian Stakenvicius napisał(a): On 07/06/16 05:18 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Robin H. Johnson > wrote: On Tue,

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-12 Thread james
On 06/12/2016 01:10 AM, konsolebox wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 11:09:39 +0800 konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:53 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: The grandios

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2016-06-12 Thread james
On 06/12/2016 04:01 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 10:42:03 -0500 james wrote: On 06/01/2016 06:20 PM, Justin Bronder wrote: > Due to a lack of time and the fact I don't use any of these packages > anymore, they are all up for grabs. > > - media-

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-10 Thread james
On 06/10/2016 10:20 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: On 10/06/16 17:16, james wrote: And this effort needs a documentation collection to support users, post installation to their target (ideal stage-4?) collection of packages; many of which they maintain themselves even if a strong-user or dev helps

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-10 Thread james
this direction too, imho. 3) needs (desires) gentoo managed repos, not github For now, we can use github for users. A glep or 2 can solved 1 and (2), well I was politely turned down, so suggestions on documentation to achieve this? Data-mining of emails and irc could easily provide the first-draft of the docs for need (2). James

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-11 Thread james
On 06/11/2016 05:52 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:58:35PM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote On 06/11/2016 10:53 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 06/11/2016 07:48 AM, james wrote: [snip] Good/Bad idea, posting proxy-maintainer questions to gentoo-user? (recall irc

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-11 Thread james
On 06/11/2016 08:29 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 06/12/2016 04:20 AM, james wrote: Is there an archive to this wonderful list? I cannot seem to find the archive? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581370 So I read this bug, but it did not illuminate an active archive

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-11 Thread james
On 06/11/2016 03:59 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 06/11/2016 01:58 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 06/11/2016 10:53 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 06/11/2016 07:48 AM, james wrote: There is also a gentoo-proxy-ma...@lists.gentoo.org list for these kinds of questions that is likely more

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-11 Thread james
On 06/10/2016 10:09 PM, konsolebox wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:53 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: The grandiose-ness you propose should only come upon graduating from proxy school, imho. user-->strong-users-->proxy-->dev pathway. Pedantic, bureaucratic, pro

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-14 Thread james
gated with extensions to wget, git, ftp and a host of other protocols employed to download source files. James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2016-06-02 Thread james
d up on it's projected usage (just not familiar with that empi project/package). James

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-16 Thread james
o-ci be packaged up for the gentoo community to use, on a small set of packages? Is that idea too difficult at this time? Is there even a glep, or standard or part of PMS that will allow the gentoo-ci solution to become a routine tool for all to use? Alexander berna...@gentoo.org curiously, James

Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

2016-06-16 Thread james
On 06/16/2016 10:04 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:59:44 -0500 james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: On 06/16/2016 02:51 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 16/06/16 09:39, Daniel Campbell wrote: I guess what I mean is these o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE

2016-08-10 Thread james
On 08/10/2016 09:44 AM, Nathan Zachary wrote: On 10/08/16 07:12, james wrote: On 08/10/2016 12:46 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: Hey, just a heads up as a user. I'm currently using LXDE. On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org <mailto:pa...@gentoo.org>> wro

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

2016-08-11 Thread james
On 08/11/2016 11:32 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: Ühel kenal päeval, N, 11.08.2016 kell 11:23, kirjutas james: Whilst devs are discussing the future of Valve's offerings on gentoo, it'd be wise to consider the effects of "Vulcan" as it is FOSS where all video card vendors can int

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE

2016-08-10 Thread james
On 08/10/2016 01:46 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El mié, 10-08-2016 a las 07:12 -0500, james escribió: On 08/10/2016 12:46 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: Hey, just a heads up as a user. I'm currently using LXDE. +_1 (correctly located). On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Pacho Ramos <

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

2016-08-12 Thread james
'pull together'. (also, I'm not hung up on 'Jentoo' as a name; perhaps 'Gintoo'? (peace && hth), James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE

2016-08-10 Thread james
On 08/10/2016 04:07 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:06 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: I have not had the time to migrate things to lxqt, despite tinkering around with it. The next system I install, will go direct to lxqt. I left KDE for many bloated reasons. I sure hop

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

2016-08-12 Thread james
On 08/12/2016 10:39 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:12:22 -0500 james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: (also, I'm not hung up on 'Jentoo' as a name; perhaps 'Gintoo'? (peace && hth), James Way outside the scope needed here. However we pull off Zhenchoo, its goi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE

2016-08-10 Thread james
ll be a news item, when the time comes, with instructions on migration to lxqt or a listing of other light weight replacement options, with a wee bit of migration detail hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Signed push & clock drift rejection

2016-07-18 Thread james
nough, or is net-misc/ntp a hard requirement ? I just use the default (gentoo) time servers, for now, but perhaps using specified servers in different regions might work too? hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-05 Thread james
On 07/05/2016 01:17 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: On 07/05/2016 09:07 AM, james wrote: On 07/05/2016 06:25 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Aaron Bauman <b...@gentoo.org> wrote: The subject of this particular mailing list post is a little alarming and over reacti

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-05 Thread james
k (beg if necessary) the kind folks that are the gentoo devs to figure out a way to archive those old codes, and document how to retrieve them, via github, as the attic too is probably like sunrise and such, headed towards deprecation and the chopping block. Thanks, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages

2016-07-08 Thread james
in learning about ebuilds can ponder proxy-maintenance of a few packages as an opportunity? Surely there is a wider audience that will see some packages they like are going away because there are not enough maintainers, and thus respond by 'stepping up' to maintain a few packages? hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-08 Thread james
ke old codes, that is for sure, and the graying of codes does not mean they are useless. Far from it. ymmv. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-08 Thread james
ges. For example, all of these issues could be added to a simple tool like app-portage/eix to show, for example security, age of last update and maintainer status, and any other issues deemed significant. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-09 Thread james
and the gentoo distro, immensely. But, we need a well documented pathway from start to finish on the proxy-maint (regardless of what the details are) before such radical pruning, and that includes robust archiving of what is necessary to personally restore old packages. Use the

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-05 Thread james
onsistent should others need to retrieve old ebuilds and source files. Thanks for the info and ideas. James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: Desktop

2016-08-06 Thread james
t together. +1 James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-08-07 Thread james
a stage-4). You have to look at CoreOS and conclude that even folks with deep expertise and deep pockets want an easy install (even roll-back) OS. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-08-07 Thread james
On 08/07/2016 08:32 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 08:24:51 -0500 james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: As a team, we could have a simple default program for a simple default disk format, and a variety of 'stage-4' images, maybe updated every 3 months, to get a gentoo sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-08-07 Thread james
der. Some education providers may not touch Java at all, and focus predominantly on C. You can't satisfy everyone out of the box. I have no idea where James gets his information from, but I suspect it's a niche market where uni students do "clustering" - whatever that is. I spend a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-08-07 Thread james
On 08/07/2016 09:09 AM, Consus wrote: On 08:24 Sun 07 Aug, james wrote: On 08/07/2016 02:38 AM, Consus wrote: On 08:48 Sun 07 Aug, Michał Górny wrote: Sure we do. In the meantime, nobody uses gentoo anymore because it still can't deal with accepting contributions and in the meantime the few

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-08-07 Thread james
On 08/07/2016 09:47 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 9:24 AM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: As a team, we could have a simple default program for a simple default disk format, and a variety of 'stage-4' images, maybe updated every 3 months, to get a gentoo system up, q

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-08-07 Thread james
On 08/07/2016 11:21 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 12:24:37 -0500 james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: Let them use java* codes, as that is what all the universities are teaching and promoting. I agree with gentoo proper on severely restricting java*, on gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] new eselect module: compiler

2016-08-09 Thread james
ers. Granted, today, most of those are still commercial, but, pressure over time could very likely see many of those compilers going the open source route, confounding the choice issue for a more open naming convention for gcc-config? hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-08-07 Thread james
On 08/07/2016 12:49 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:47 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: On 08/07/2016 09:47 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: Sounds great. What's stopping you? Why Rich, thanks for the triple compliments; is that a vote that the basic idea(s) have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2016-08-07 Thread james
are fixed, or with a mentor that knows more about java than I. (that's not difficult at all). BGO-510912 (Apache-Mesos) and BGO-523412 (Apache-Spark) Publicly or privately, you'd get much more than my gratitude... (seriously). I also use euscan frequently (just so you know). curiously, James

Re: Easy Installs / Stage 4 ( Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs )

2016-08-07 Thread james
aught to go. They're less "Limits", more "guides", often enough. On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 12:24:37 -0500 james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: Sure, I agree here, but, statistically these "hi level" languages are being taught, in lieu of C; and that is really sad. I'm

Re: #wg-stable: Reservations about a "STABLE" & "NeedsStable" bugzilla keywords (re: [gentoo-dev] New Working Group established to evaluate the stable tree)

2016-08-15 Thread james
be considered, where practical within BGO} Arm64 is already hitting Datacenters, around the globe; and is a very large point of excitement particularly related to Green and low-cost efforts. hth, James

Re: #wg-stable: Reservations about a "STABLE" & "NeedsStable" bugzilla keywords (re: [gentoo-dev] New Working Group established to evaluate the stable tree)

2016-08-15 Thread james
wers folks to 'take ownership' which leads to better quality and increases in productivity, imho. The ability for other members of the gentoo community to read and learn, at their own pace:: *priceless*. ymmv, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-02 Thread james
. Gentoo is all about freedom, right? hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-02 Thread james
On 02/02/2017 04:05 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 3:35 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: I think that unikernels are something everyone should be aware of as they purport to be the latest trend in securing all sorts of systems. (a brief read). Not really for all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-02 Thread james
On 02/02/2017 04:40 PM, David Seifert wrote: On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 15:35 -0500, james wrote: On 02/02/2017 01:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: If (base == minimal), then all of the upstream defaults need to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-03 Thread james
On 02/03/2017 12:39 PM, james wrote: So imagine flags are a giant 'sparse matrix' that I need to 'mollify' individually periodically, then run CI on that complete-set of packages, and then test against automated attack vectors. So, were we to want to 'enhance' flag representation from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-03 Thread james
eas and results of testing. I really need to apologize to many devs. But, I'm getting very close to having something absolutely wonderful, about 90% thanks to the gentoo devs. I do not want to appear to be childish throwing a tantrum about this, but, well, I just really cannot help it; as y'all can imagine? hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving OpenRC to a meson-based build

2017-02-01 Thread james
, TUP warrants monitoring as new code contributions keep moving this blazingly fast build system tool forward. If others have first hand experience with TUP, I'd very much like to read about their comments and experiences with TUP. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving OpenRC to a meson-based build

2017-02-01 Thread james
, TUP warrants monitoring as new code contributions keep moving this blazingly fast build system tool forward. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-02 Thread james
stage-4 minimal gentoo images to install from and go from there. So as much as all issues can be minimized, standardized, documented and look like other arches, the "mo better" imo. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] REQUIRED_USE, global USE flags, user-friendliness...

2017-01-27 Thread james
shared by all forms of gentoo, imho. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

2017-01-29 Thread james
- --arw hth, James - -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Project Lead, Adélie Linux http://adelielinux.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYjiTOAAoJEMspy1GSK50UCgYP/j7zBRAiL6w7fACER+A+J/3x keXe4OsBzlNsUxqC+BrQ/Y9tCSJnIHRIs6ozQCgEdfAKJfkLqkSmKAY3O3RT+mho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improving repoman checking, better idea (add arch.desc file)

2017-01-29 Thread james
style unikernel types of clusters and how to cluster up a variety of gentoo-embedded systems, which are actually quite similar to unikernel based clusters. A state-diagram of just how all of these profiles are intertwined, would help to clarify the details and thus be keenly appreciate, when a final verdict is reached. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: Cron <gmirror@dipper> /usr/local/bin/pidlock -s rsync-gen /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/mastermirror/rsync-gen.sh

2017-01-27 Thread james
el of promotion, but, I am anxiously awaiting that possibility. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] REQUIRED_USE, global USE flags, user-friendliness...

2017-01-28 Thread james
On 01/28/2017 08:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 02:57:00PM -0500, james wrote Exactly:: simplify the flags, profiles and associated constructs down to the bare bones. Even embedded (arm/mips/etc) builds could benefit from a really minimized gentoo as a starting point

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pre-GLEP for review: mix-in profiles

2017-01-23 Thread james
On 01/23/2017 04:23 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Hi, everyone. I've written a short proposal that aims to provide basic infrastructure for defining mix-in profiles in Gentoo. I've tried to keep it simple, and backwards compatible. The main goal is to be able to start defining some mix-ins without

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages

2017-01-17 Thread james
identical hardware can change rapidly. Lofty goals, yes, but since the subject of local documentation on embedded systems came up, naturally it is quite reasonable to seek the fastest possible diverse usage with the least footprint on resources. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages

2017-01-17 Thread james
On 01/17/2017 01:05 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 01/13/2017 08:06 AM, james wrote: On 01/13/2017 02:45 AM, Sven Eden wrote: Btw.: Even "embedded experts" wholeheartedly agree that they disagree what "embedded" actually is. But I do think SoCs actually *do* qualify, at

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: LLVM

2016-08-19 Thread james
se, imho. Heterogeneous and open HPC is where is at, imho. If there is a forum where the community and pathscale folks discuss issues, point that out as I could not find one for deeper reading hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues!

2016-08-19 Thread james
also be a fertile area for technical growth or the gentoo community? Access to there and other dev tools might be a powerful incentive, if packaged up attactively, for the gentoo user community to participate more in the less risky parts of gentoo development workflows? hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2016-08-19 Thread james
, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: LLVM

2016-08-19 Thread james
things have changed and the change is accelerating, rapidly. Perhaps too much off those Cray patents that your company owns are leaking toxins into the brain-trust where you park? Vendor walk-back is sad, imho. ymmv. Best of luck to your company's 5-year plan [2] http://uniker

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: LLVM

2016-08-19 Thread james
On 08/19/2016 05:05 PM, C Bergström wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 4:52 AM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: You removed your rude remark::: " Sorry to be the party crasher, but..." So let's put it back, just for clarity. Back to my own glass house.. It will take a few

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc using modprobe directly to load kernel modules

2016-08-17 Thread james
for gentoo clusters, that are very use specific, highly tuned and minimized, including openrc, the base profile and old codes necessary for the work at hand, for the target hardware node. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-07 Thread james
On 12/07/2016 02:44 AM, Duncan wrote: james posted on Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:10:16 -0500 as excerpted: Really, for someone like me, it is just best to avoid irc. FWIW, some 12 years ago now, in 2004, I started using gentoo, with the intent of contributing and potentially eventually becoming

[gentoo-dev] Gentooo 501(c) accounting

2016-12-07 Thread james
received. James The the most recent reply: > > [1] http://www.ledger-cli.org/ I regard cli accounting as a friend of GnuCash rather than the competition, there isn't anything one can do that the other can't in accounting terms, also notice that cli acco

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentooo 501(c) accounting

2016-12-07 Thread james
On 12/07/2016 01:31 PM, james wrote: Hello, There was some discussion before about the software used for gentoo the charity (501)(c). It seems to have perked up a bit of discussion on gnucash, where all of the posting I have read suggest that gnucash is a wonderful accounting system

Re: Thread moving to -nfp LIST [Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentooo 501(c) accounting]

2016-12-08 Thread james
On 12/07/2016 04:39 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 04:01:53PM -0500, james wrote: Can you cross post to gentoo-dev? I'm not subscribed to that list. Should not a wider community, particularly devs be part of the discussion? Please DO subscribe. Nope. I strongly believe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentooo 501(c) accounting

2016-12-07 Thread james
currently working. For me, as the interface (web based) is a huge plus over anything I looked at in the past. On Dec 7, 2016 10:32, "james" <gar...@verizon.net <mailto:gar...@verizon.net>> wrote: Hey Jigme, I think gentoo is under a social contract limits our use opt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-07 Thread james
to Gentoo developers. References: [gentoo-proxy-ma...@lists.gentoo.org] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-proxy-maint/ Thanks Robin. All good to know. Maybe these details and the other aforementioned details can be clarified and documented in the wiki, for the benefit of all to know. hth, James

Re: Thread moving to -nfp LIST [Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentooo 501(c) accounting]

2016-12-07 Thread james
are interested can read what is discussed via the list? I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in our goals and management infrastructures. James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stay on-topic.

2016-12-09 Thread james
On 12/09/2016 03:58 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: On Friday, December 9, 2016 3:24:44 PM EST james wrote: On 12/08/2016 02:15 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Even if I'm repeating myself... Please keep the mailing lists on topic. Problems caused by gentoo developer behaviors

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-06 Thread james
on Gentoo, as that would be unwise, imho. Peace and Best of luck to you, Craig. James Cheers, Craig

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-06 Thread james
On 12/06/2016 09:17 PM, Sam Jorna wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 08:59:11PM -0500, james wrote: On 12/06/2016 07:29 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:13:12PM -0500, james wrote: A while back, we we were promised an email channel for gentoo-proxy folks that did not get

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-06 Thread james
On 12/06/2016 09:20 PM, Sam Jorna wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:17:54PM +1100, Sam Jorna wrote: have a look at the new [0]Mentors project, or even send a mail to -dev I forgot the link, sorry: [0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Mentors On this page, the string 'quiz' occurs (3)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-06 Thread james
On 12/06/2016 09:52 PM, Sam Jorna wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:44:12PM -0500, james wrote: On 12/06/2016 09:09 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: James With the creation of the Mentors project (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Mentors) a bit of clarification has occurred to help prospective

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-06 Thread james
On 12/06/2016 09:09 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: James With the creation of the Mentors project (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Mentors) a bit of clarification has occurred to help prospective developers outside the IRC and/or proxy-maintainers project). Am I to understand

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-06 Thread james
On 12/06/2016 07:29 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:13:12PM -0500, james wrote: A while back, we we were promised an email channel for gentoo-proxy folks that did not get on well with IRC. It never materialized, The mail alias proxy-ma...@gentoo.org (same alias as proxy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling ebuild logging output in Portage (Was: gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device)

2016-12-14 Thread james
he wiki team ... Well pardon me, if I'm miss interpreting here, as there is only this fragmented thread in my inbox:: no prior postings. But perhaps folks should look at "app-portage/elogv" Already in place, easy to use, and should be updated with EAPI (5/6) based parsing features?

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please stay on-topic.

2016-12-09 Thread james
On 12/08/2016 02:15 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2016, 15:08:17 schrieb james: On 12/07/2016 04:39 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 04:01:53PM -0500, james wrote: Can you cross post to gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages

2017-01-13 Thread james
refer to her as the queen of assembler, as she has fixed thousands of compiler bugs from a myriad of compiler vendors, not for compensation, but because the bugs got in her way... hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo

2016-12-03 Thread james
cal talent base of gentoo. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo

2016-12-03 Thread james
rs (expecially without systemd) and there are a myriad of gentoo dev needs that could be solve if there was a companion (gentoo-cluster) solution that was simultaneously support. (gentoo?) CLUSTERS are where it's at! So get hip, get real and get current. (this comes from an 'old_fart) hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please retain authorship of contributed patches

2016-12-01 Thread james
But for the youthful devs, it would be very cool if a mechanism/system was deployed at Gentoo for those aspiring devs to enhance their resumes, kinda like a personally attributable changelog or such. Story telling comes with age and wisdom. knowing when to give the credit to another.. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-11-30 Thread james
s/coreos-baremetal https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-ignition.htm https://github.com/coreos/ignition/blob/master/doc/getting-started.md https://github.com/coreos/ignition/blob/master/doc/supported-platforms.md Thanks, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT Who runs Gentoo was -> RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-12-04 Thread james
tine basis. All in all, gnucash is an outstanding piece of FOSS software; much better than Quickbooks as many on the discussion lists attest to on a routine basis. It is in portage and it runs on windows and other platforms. hth, James https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/ I draw

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo

2016-12-04 Thread james
l request requiring them is updated. FAST? have you read about 'tup'? http://gittup.org/tup/ I'm not sure you are interested in a streamlined build system, just for CI/tinderbox, but tup is as smart/fast as it gets. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

2016-12-05 Thread james
On 12/04/2016 10:10 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: On 05/12/16 03:06, james wrote: On 12/04/2016 06:49 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:07:59PM +, M. J. Everitt wrote: I gather both Quickbooks and Sage have a more modular approach to "proper" accounting software

Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

2016-12-04 Thread james
:18 PM james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: Hello gnucash users. I use gnucash for my small business, for years and I'm quite happy with it. Recently, I was ask if Gnucash has as good of support for 501(c)3 non-profits as does ledger (www.ledger-cli.org)? Any and all co

Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

2016-12-04 Thread james
th GNUcash.... hth, James

Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

2016-12-04 Thread james
On 12/04/2016 05:55 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: (OT accounting systems) On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 01:10:16PM -0500, james wrote: GNUcash is superior to Quickbooks, as it is a 'double entry' accounting system. Last time I check Quickbooks was not 'double entry' and that is a big deal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Intel's Management Engine

2017-01-01 Thread james
On 01/01/2017 04:12 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: On 01/01/17 21:01, james wrote: Is there a group of gentoo devs interested in the security aspects of internal, and often non-disclosed, hardware, as I cannot seem to find such a group, if it exists? Is there any interest in such a gentoo-dev

[gentoo-dev] Intel's Management Engine

2017-01-01 Thread james
been threads about coreboot and other related topics, even recently. At the least a wiki page itemizing known issues and possible workarounds, or is that appropriate for the gentoo-wiki? curiously, James [1] http://hackaday.com/blog/page/49/

Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-03 Thread james
e old codes are much more useful than most have figured, but it's going to take some time to establish this performance and superior security postulate, as I use 'old-fart' methodologies. hth, James [1] http://unikernel.org/blog/2015/unikernels-meet-docker

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: automatically killing invalid CFLAGS/warning about bad CFLAGS

2006-04-28 Thread James Potts
? This doesn't fix the problem with the flag, it just covers it up. In any case, it's a possible problem that I will put up with. btw, I'm not using visibility=hidden (dev-only flag, not for users). --James Potts On 4/27/06, R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Potts wrote: -fvisibility-inlines

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Sunrise Project -- Sunrise FAQ

2006-06-09 Thread James Potts
On 6/9/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 19:10 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Markus Ullmann wrote: Maybe that way we avoid any misunderstandings, nearly doubled posts and repeating ourselves over and over again. The problem is that some questions and

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